EDITORIAL: Charter school applications face tall task

5:43 PM,
Jun. 17, 2013

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The Daily News Journal

If charter schools are to take hold in Rutherford County, they'll have to make a better impression than The Tracey Darnell Montessori Academy did here last week.

Proposed to be sponsored by a startup nonprofit group called Empowering One to D.R.E.A.M., the charter school's application called for serving at-risk youth in north Rutherford County, mainly in La Vergne. The school proposed starting with 66 students in grades 4-6 and adding grades 7-8 in the sixth year for a total enrollment of 286.